On-Site Education
Preservation Long Island’s school programs are designed to spark creativity, promote dialogue, and deepen understanding of the past. Our programs adopt an inquiry-based approach, encouraging learning through hands-on activities, problem solving, and multimodal experiences. By engaging directly with artifacts and architecture in their historic contexts, students practice critical thinking skills, draw connections between the past and the present, and discover their own place in New York’s history.
All field trips meet New York State learning standards across grade levels and curricula and include pre-visit and post-visit teaching materials and resources.
The cost for field trips is $10 per student with a $100 minimum per program.
Joseph Lloyd Manor
Long Island in the American Revolution
4th and 5th Grade
The American Revolution upended lives and divided families across Long Island, including the Lloyd household in Huntington. In this program, students learn about Long Island’s pivotal role during the Revolutionary War, reflect on the political tensions and democratic ideals that inspired the Declaration of Independence, reconstruct personal narratives using artifacts and documents hidden in the historic house, and explore the meaning of freedom for both free and enslaved Americans. This program closes with a craft project, as students learn to write with a quill and express what freedom means to them.
Colonial Merchants and Trade
4th and 5th Grade
Merchants like the Lloyds brought great wealth to the American colonies, trading local raw materials for European luxury goods. In his program, students identify valuable resources in the local landscape, learn about artifacts while “plundering” the historic house as pirates, practice teamwork as they barter for trade goods, consult primary sources to calculate the value of their wares, and discuss the complex relationship between the Lloyd family’s wealth and the people they enslaved. The program closes with students minting their own currency, as they reflect on the values that shape their own lives, families, and communities.
Jupiter Hammon and the History of Slavery in New York
6th-12th Grade
Jupiter Hammon is recognized today as the first published Black American poet and spent almost his entire life enslaved by the Lloyd family on Long Island. In this program, students use artifacts to explore the relationship between the Lloyds and the people they enslaved, analyze primary sources to discover the impact of the American Revolution on Hammon and others in bondage, identify everyday acts of resistance in the colonial kitchen, and discuss Hammon’s complex views on justice and emancipation in an interactive multimedia activity. Census records, inventories, advertisements, and poetry attest to the dehumanizing realities of a system that treated people as property, but also capture powerful stories of resistance, creativity, and achievement.
